iSeries ADO.Net Provider and Common FAQ Links
March 19th, 2009
These links might come in handy. It’s the ADO.NET provider for iseries dB2 and has links to the VS Add Ins. I think you need a login to download some of them. And it says that they’re looking at a LINQ to iSeries provider via Entity Framework.
To get a description of files, schemas, columns, you can use the views under QSYS2. I noticed some nice views that bring together the physical files and logical files.